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The Quebec Community Groups Network, and the Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario met with the editorial board of Le Droit. This united front emphasizes the importance of modernizing the Official Languages Act for official minority language communities.

The situation of Francophones outside Quebec and English-speaking Quebecers cannot be compared argues Robert Dutrisac in an opinion piece forLe Devoir. Dutrisac was commenting on a memorandum of understanding between the Quebec Community Groups Network, l’Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario (AFO) and the Société de l’Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick (SANB).

Commenting on a partnership agreement between the Quebec Community Groups Network, l’Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario and the Société de l’Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick Political scientists Rémi Léger, Linda Cardinal et Michel Doucet argued that symmetry between French and English minority communities is illusionary. They argue some communities are more of a minority that others.

Speaking with Paul Karwatsky of CTV Montreal, QCGN President Geoffrey Chambers discusses a cooperation agreement with Francophone communities in New Brunswick and Ontario. The three organizations pledge to work together to promote and protect the rights of official linguistic minority communities.

The agreement signed between the Quebec Community Groups Network, la Société de l’Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick and the Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario led to some heated social media exchanges. Many questioned the need and effectiveness of such an agreement.

Le Droit columnist Denis Gratton remains cautious on the agreement signed by QCGN, La Société de l’Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick and the Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario. Although he applauds the organizations for standing in solidarity, he expresses concern this could lead to many French-speakers in Quebec feeling alienated from the rest of the Francophonie.

In the wake of the government’s decision to transfer two English schools to the French schooling system, minority French-speaking groups outside of Quebec are standing in solidarity with Quebec’s English-speaking minority community.

Organizations which represent
the three largest official language minority communities in the country
want their issues to be at the forefront during the upcoming federal elections.
For the first time, the Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario (AFO), the
Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), and the Société de l’Acadie du
Nouveau-Brunswick (SANB) have signed an agreement to work together.

OTTAWA – The Assemblée de la
francophonie de l’Ontario (AFO), and the Société de l’Acadie du
Nouveau-Brunswick (SANB) have signed an agreement with the Quebec Community
Groups Network (QCGN) to work together for the “progress and the protection of
linguistic rights”. Considering that “an attack against one of our communities
is an attack against all of us”, according to Geoffrey Chambers, president of
the QCGN, the three organizations have signed a renewable one-year agreement to
discuss common actions.

New-Brunswick Acadians,
English-speaking Quebecers and Franco-Ontario united their strengths. A
historical memorandum of understanding was signed to defend the linguistic
rights of official language minority communities. The Société de l’Acadie du
Nouveau-Brunswick (SANB), the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), and the
Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario (AFO) now form a coalition in the
defense of linguistic rights.